Still have to watch Zach Bogosian on a daily basis. You won but at what cost?!

Faber next deal will eat up a large portion of that 14 mil in dead money honestly so it’s not the cap he’ll you think it is.
At best you add 1 more mid level top 6 forward next year and resign Faber and that savings is gone.

Figure the cap goes up to $92 million by summer 2025. That's an increase of $8.5 million which would cover the entirety of Faber's raise. If Kaprizov wants $12 million to stay, that's only $3 million of the $13.07 million in dead money coming off the books ($14.74 million drops to $1.67 million). We'll still have $10 million to work with to improve the team. We won't be near the cap floor, but we also won't be forced to do insane cap gymnastics or hope that short term injuries are long term enough for LTIR just so we can function like we had to do this season.